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From: Jason Dillon <jason@planet57.com>
Subject: Re: Ideas on a rc.d kind of directory
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:56:43 -0700
To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
Sender: Jason Dillon <jason.dillon@gmail.com>

I was kinda against this kinda thingy way back in the days of the  
boss-of-j, but I'm interested to hear more how you think it might  
work... since I just wrote off anything Marc said as crap  
automatically :-P

--jason


On Jul 13, 2007, at 4:17 PM, David Jencks wrote:

>
> On Jul 13, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Jeff Genender wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As we move forward and we integrate with more and more 3rd party
>> products, we will need the ability to be able to change an  
>> environment
>> variable through a plugin, or add a commandline JAVA_OPTS, etc.
>>
>> Currently our startup scripts call the setjavaenv.sh to set  
>> environment
>> properties.  It would really be nice to have the ability to have a
>> "scripts" directory, where all of the scripts get executed before
>> Geronimo is launched.  Why do we want this?
>>
>> As we grow in our plugins, they will need to set environment or java
>> options set before running G.  They may also have a need to start  
>> or run
>> other outside processes  that are not a part of G.
>>
>> It would be great to allow plugins to install an rc script that gets
>> executed to do activities before and perhaps after G is run?
>>
>> I would propose we create a scripts directory under bin or under var
>> that could be similar to init.d, and have it called with start/stop,
>> etc.  This way plugins can install specific scripts in these  
>> directories
>> for execution.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> How cross platform can we make this?
>
> I'm not sure I know what kinds of things you expect this to be used  
> for, so if you can provide some more concrete examples I'd  
> appreciate it.  I'm wondering if this is the kind of stuff that  
> we've been taking care of so far with e.g. the  
> SystemPropertiesGbean and DirectoryInitializationGBean.
>
> thanks
> david jencks
>
>>
>> Jeff
>